"Friend Seithenyn," said the abbot, when, having passed the castle gates, and solicited an audience, he was proceeding to the presence of Melvas, "this task, to which I have accinged myself is arduous, and in some degree awful;

1831, Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle,

He accinged himself to the task with his usual heroism, and having finished it to his entire satisfaction, reminded his host to order in the devil.

1855, James John Garth Wilkinson, War, Cholera, and the Ministry of Health, p. 58

[...]but we must now accinge ourselves to other less agreeable considerations.

"I am accinging myself to a meeting with the enemy leader, Dr. Harrison Royce, among others — to discuss peace, perhaps, although my own feeling is that the dinner will be used by both sides in the traditional fashion,..."